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Flickr is a photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online community platform, which is generally considered an early example of a Web 2.0 application. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its innovative online community tools that allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means. Flickr has a repository that is quickly approaching 1 billion images (as of August 2007).

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Eric Fischer created this fascinating animation, showing what an earthquake looks like through the lens of Twitter. It's a tweetquake! Key: Green dots are tweets about the earthquake, and gray dots are tweets about anything else. The video covers 12 ...

Klout just doubled the number of services it measures to determine your online influence, adding Blogger, Flickr, Instagram, Last.fm and Tumblr to its scoring system. The San Francisco-based startup, which is celebrating its three-year anniversary to...

Icelanders on Friday delivered what may set the template for other governments: a crowdsourced constitution. A group of 25 citizens presented a draft of the constitution to Iceland's parliament. The group, which is made up of ordinary residents, comp...

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Pictarine Quick Pitch: Pictarine is a w...

"C.I.A. John," the AP-profiled analyst-of-mystery responsible for tracking Osama bin Laden for more than a decade, has been spotted in a photo posted to the White House's Flickr account. The Observer now claims to have used the photo to identify John...

Nicholas Thomas is the Director of Business Development at Docudesk Corporation and is passionate about user experience, design, and innovation. You can follow him on Twitter @nicholaswthomas and read his blog at NicholasWayneThomas.com. Although som...

Thursday's second annual Social Media Day celebration was a huge success throughout the world. Thousands of people came together offline in their local communities to recognize the technological advancements that enable everyone to connect with real-...

As U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the nation regarding the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, we turn our attention to the men and women whose military service has taken them to that country. Currently, around 100,000 troops occupy Afghani...

One fun and free way to personalize your iPad is with a wallpaper background. There are thousands of wallpapers out there, so to help you narrow down the choices we've hand-picked 15 fabulous options that are available to download — for free — from t...

As residents of Joplin, Missouri, begin to sort through the aftermath of a tornado that killed at least 89 people on Sunday evening, many of them are posting information about the disaster using social media. Video footage taken from a local Fastrip ...

According to Flickr's camera usage statistics, the iPad 2's camera is used by very few people — only 23 active daily users. And so far, 12,811 photos have been taken and uploaded to Flickr with the device. By comparison, the iPhone 4 has 4,402 daily ...

YouTube, YouTube, YouTube. If you want to upload a video on the Internet, pretty much anyone will default to the web's standard. And why shouldn't they? YouTube has been the platform for viral sensations, from huge brands (Old Spice) to kid musicians...

It turns out there’s some truth to the common Twitter put-down: A lot of people go online to talk about the sandwich they just ate. But they’re not just talking about it, they’re photographing it. Why? In many cases, people are documenting their live...

The White House posted several images of President Barack Obama and staffers planning and reviewing updates from the military raid that ended in the death of Osama bin Laden. The White House Flickr account has been used extensively during the Obama a...

If you haven't heard, the UK's Prince William and Catherine (better known as Kate) Middleton are getting married at Westminster Abbey in London on Friday, April 29. (We assume you have.) It will be easy enough to follow along on TV with nearly every ...

In a bid to capture some of the many eyeballs that will be trolling through Royal Wedding footage following the April 29 event, Flickr has launched a group and contest to crowdsource related photographs from around the world. The People's Royal Weddi...

Google’s announcement that it's adding a “+1” button to incorporate sentiment into its search results raised a lot of questions not addressed in the company’s official announcement. We spoke with Google rep Jim Prosser about +1. Here are some of our ...

Flickr has just introduced some interesting features for sharing your photos around the web. One of the most significant features is the addition of Tumblr to the roster of social sharing destinations. Flickr says today's changes should make it easie...

Whether you're fully embedded in Austin's SXSWi action or living vicariously through tweets from afar, you can easily follow all of our on-the-ground Mashable activity online. Our staffers and contributors will be sending updates to the web almost co...

Social media and the web have become the go-to for real-time information when disasters strike. It's no surprise that the news of Friday's 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan spread rapidly on Twitter, while live video feeds and blogs kept pace. With u...

Tilt-shift has been around in analog photography for years, but a crop of iPhone apps that simulate the effect has led to some great iPhotography experiments. You're no doubt familiar with the classic tilt-shift photos that makes cityscapes look like...

On February 11, Egyptians celebrated in Tahrir Square after Hosni Mubarak stepped down from his role as president. Jigar Mehta was watching the celebration on television, and he noticed many people in the crowd filming the celebration with their mobi...

Pulse -- the iPhone, iPad and Android social news consumption app from startup Alphonso Labs -- is proving Wednesday that it's far more than a stylized RSS reader with the addition of six new content sources. Pulse now features six popular social med...

We are continually impressed with the results iPhotographers are getting from their Apple-made mobile shooters. To celebrate, we are bringing you another gallery of mobile photography greatness. This time around, we've looked to the wonderful world o...

Since Internet access was restored Wednesday in Egypt, witnesses of the growing violence throughout the country have been able to share their photos and videos without using a work around. Internet access in the country had been restricted after the ...

While most of Egypt is under an Internet and SMS blackout right now, the web is still showing the rest of the world a vivid and disturbing picture of what's going on there. Sources, mostly on-the-ground news outlets, have been able to upload images a...

The Internet is a big place. How big? Try gigantic. The infographic above, from the folks at Focus, attempts to visually represent some of the mind-boggling numbers that defined the Internet circa 2010 -- the result is certainly pretty, but still not...

Flickr has added the option to sign in to Flickr with a Facebook account in an effort to make Yahoo's popular photo-sharing site more accessible. The new feature is part of Flickr's push to make more OpenID login options available. In October, Flickr...

Nowadays, we are all content creators. Whether it's work or a school project, the next blog post, or even that next tweet, we all suffer from writer's block from time to time. Traditional advice suggests taking a break from your monitor and getting s...

Photo-project startup Pixable is launching a new Facebook app today that looks to change the way the social network's members browse photos online. The free app allows users to see all of their friend's photos without jumping from profile to profile,...

Inspired by developer Benny Wong's FlickSquare mashup of Foursquare and Flickr, Naked Internet has released a similar application that lets Gowalla users automatically post their photos to Flickr. The application, appropriately named FlickWalla, leve...

Software developer Benny Wong has created a new project, dubbed FlickSquare, that will crosspost your Foursquare check-in photos and locations to Flickr. Last week, Foursquare introduced the ability to upload photos and comments to its iPhone and And...

Remember how we were all freaking out on New Year's Eve, 1999, convinced that the world as we know it would end -- at the hands of machines, of course? Well, we weathered that storm and then some. Still, as we shamble forward into the next decade, it...

'Tis the season and Mashable has been getting into the holiday spirit by showcasing some of our favorite wish list items in the Mashable 10 gift guide. But what spreads holiday cheer more than the gift of giving? That’s why we’ve been giving away a M...

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